Critics are often accused of “singling-out” Israel unfairly. Yet US foreign aid statistics show exactly how Israel is being singled out – for special treatment. Although this article is almost a year old it contains the most up-to-date information available about US foreign aid.

Larry Derfner weighs in against the liberal and left Zionist argument that Israel needs to end the occupation “for its own sake”. It’s doing very well thank you with it!

Call instead for ending the occupation for the Palestinians’ sake, for the sake of restoring Israel’s lost morality…

Alternative für Deutschland’s startling second-place in Sunday’s election in Mecklenburg-Pomerania (4 September) has sent shockwaves throughout Germany. The consequences are particularly concerning for the country’s minorities. Joel Schalit writes to Angela Merkel about how to repair the damage.

Former Ta’ayush activist and journalist Mairav Zonszein writes about the crisis facing the Israeli left and its inability to effect change, “the increasing sense that our ideals are unwanted and that we are outnumbered”. Many are leaving: “The Israelis emigrating from the country are inadvertently part of the spirit of the boycott movement in the sense that they, too, have given up on the idea that change will come from within…” And Philip Weiss congratulates the Forward and Zonszein “for breaking a story that is in the mainstream’s lap. The New York Times or New Yorker should have done this story. They didn’t because they do not want to confront the political crisis that Israel is experiencing, before the world’s eyes…”

This consists of two articles from Open Democracy by two JfJfP signatories in sharp disagreement. The first by Labour History professor Mary Davis attacks what she thinks is the monolithic view of Zionism – she doesn’t name who she means. JfJfP website has consistently pointed out the lack of consensus on what Zionism and especially anti-Zionism mean. Then she suddenly launches into an attack on BDS as monolithic. Where has she been during all the arguments about boycotting only settlement products or companies which profit from the Occupation? Jonathan Rosenhead responds, equally surprised at Mary’s lack of homework before going into print.

On 4th May this year Labour party activist and a vice-chair of Momentum, Jackie Walker, was suspended from the Labour party. The charge – alleged antisemitism.

Jackie is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Here we discuss the affair with her, partly in our words, partly in hers.

The idea of antisemitism came at a time when Jews were a politically weak, often poor, persecuted minority in Europe. That has ended. Israel today has one of the most powerful military forces in the world and Jews are the richest ethnic group in the USA. So what’s with this persecution complex? Lisa Goldman on how the Olympics were viewed through the glasses of persecution.

This week, August 29th to September 4th, 2016 the most horrifying story comes from BADIL and Al Monitor. The IDF is going into refugee camps, pulling out young men and shooting them in the leg. This cripples them but does not kill them if they can get medical help against infection. This is the new […]

Shocked by the apparent French intolerance of diverse beach-wear Forward has compiled a selection of photos which ask the question – if it’s the cover-up that’s wrong why not send the police to remonstrate with Orthodox Jewish women?

It is fanciful to imagine that any consensus on the Western/Wailing Wall can be made between Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox and all other Jews. Netanyahu has left their power intact. He can do a deal with them but not with progressive Jews not least because they are not recognised as Jews by the Israeli Rabbinate. The ties binding Jews round the world – where the Ultra-Orthodox are a small minority – to Israel continue to fray.

Historian Abdullah Al-Arian argues that Islamism is not a single international phenomenon but is shaped by circumstances and traditions in each country. It has gained traction because many see it as the authentic voice of oppressed Arabs as opposed to the artifice of western democracy. Palestinians are the only Arabs left fighting an outside subjugating regime.

In an interesting move Palestinian business owners have taken their place in the national struggle to free themselves from both Israeli coils and dependence on foreign aid.

Israeli politics are now ’50 shades of right wing’ says Gideon Levy. The Left’s attempt to wear Zionist clothes was doomed to fail. Today, only the radical Left speaks the truth about Israeli state power.

Whatever evidence is produced – like counting the bodies of children, women, the elderly – about the indiscriminate shelling and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, every unit of the IDF and government insists it has examined its actions and found itself not guilty. This is about the report from the IDF’s MAG.

Israelis continue on their new track of denying the Jewish history of the diaspora. Now their claim to Palestinian land is that ‘Jews have always lived here’. So they carry on erecting Jews-only houses and destroying Palestinian ones. Bibi has learned to ignore US disapproval because the military/financial arrangement just continues.

To the Israeli governors of Palestine, media news reports are ‘incitement’ and thus must be stopped. The IOF is accountable to no-one for its definition of incitement which may be simply telling the truth (the first casualty of war).

No wonder Sami Chakrabarti’s primary recommendation on antisemitism and Labour was that all members should use civil language. Perhaps she had donor Michael Foster in mind. His campaign against Jeremy Corbyn has been relentless. He even went to the High court about Corbyn’s right to stand as Labour leader (he lost). And his language (see inset in posting) has been foul. Disciplinary action?

This article by Akiva Eldar and report from Badil tell us that the IDF, under Lieberman’s orders, are engaging in an orgy of destruction and arrest of young Palestinian men in refugee camps. The favourite tactic seems to be crippling them by shooting them in the leg. These tactics says BADIL are a crime under international law.

The small and primitive village of Susiya has become the international symbol of Israel’s ruthless attempt to wipe the area clean of Palestinians and of the villagers’ resistance. The village has the support of many European countries, the US State Department and here the Washington Post.

The rhetoric is Israel is the state for all Jews and all should move there. The reality is that for adults it is alienating. It’s not the foreign language and alphabet. It’s the refusal to recognise the qualifications of professionals – who feel the country wants their children to be brought up as proper Israelis but not the unassimilatable adults. First published by the JTA 5 months ago, it is still pertinent.